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Weird Polish World: Witold Wojtkiewicz!

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Top of the Day: Dolls - Witold Wojtkiewicz , 1906 Today's Artwork: Dolls - Witold Wojtkiewicz , 1906 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Nature morte aux asphodèles (Still Life with Asphodels) - Henri Matisse , 1907 Today's Artwork: King Afonso VI - Unknown author , 17th century -- link -- Nature morte aux asphodèles (Still Life with Asphodels) - Henri Matisse , 1907 -- link -- Benacre Birch I, III - Julian Perry , 2015 -- link -- Portrait of Manuel Mª Gutiérrez - Antonio María Esquivel , 1834 -- link -- Gelmeroda IX - Lyonel Feininger , 1926 -- link -- Portrait of Queen Charlotte of England - Thomas Gainsborough, studio , 1781/1781 -- link -- Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt - Egon Schiele , 1910 -- link -- Untitled (Night Snow Scene) - George W. Sotter , 1949 -- link -- Letitia Wilson Jordan - Thomas Eakins , 1888 -- link -- ​

Random with Beth

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Top of the Day: Alice Nordin - Viggo Johansen , 1903 Today's Artwork: PH-651 - Clyfford Still , 1934 -- link -- Functionally Fixed and Functionally Unfixed Panels - Andrea Zittel , 1998 -- link -- Tritons - Rupert Bunny , circa 1890 -- link -- Landscape with Figure Blessing the Landscape - Sazhin Nikolay , 1988 -- link -- Wooded Landscape - Thorvald Erichsen , (1900) -- link -- Josef and his brothers - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , 1657 -- link -- Young Woman with a Water Pitcher - Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632–1675 Delft) , ca. 1662 -- link -- Alice Nordin - Viggo Johansen , 1903 -- link -- Abbey among Oak Trees - Caspar David Friedrich , 1809/1810 -- link -- ​Today we went and looked at many of these artists in more detail.  They are great artists!!!

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The Purple Dress - William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 , 1908-1910 Today's Artwork: The Canoe on Epte - Claude Monet , circa 1890 -- link -- The Purple Dress - William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 , 1908-1910 -- link -- Detail of Ventania panel - Athos Bulcão , 1971 -- link -- Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide' - Arthur Streeton , 1890 -- link -- Landscape with Rocks - Gustave Courbet , 1872 -- link -- Piccolo nero col rosa - Afro , 1963/1963 -- link -- Figure mitologiche - Tullio Garbari , 1930 -- link -- Romeo and Juliet - Ford Madox Brown , 1869/1870 -- link -- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Thomas Edgar Stephens , 1947 -- link -- Farmhouse in Nuenen - Vincent van Gogh , 1885 -- link -- Man sitting in the café - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1950 -- link -- ​

Random with Beth

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Top of the Day: The Baptism of Christ - Joachim Patinir , 1510/1520 Today's Artwork: The hill of Montmartre with stone quarry - Vincent van Gogh , June 1886 - July 1886 -- link -- Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 1852 -- link -- Cottages under the Tatra Mountains - Alexander ECKERDT , 1963 -- link -- Four Captive Demons -- link -- Five Recruits: Ummee Chund, Indur, Goolzaree, Bukhtawur and Juhaz - Artist: Attributed to the family of Ghulam Ali Khan , ca. 1815-1816 -- link -- Young Woman Seated in the Shade of a Tree - Antoine Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot , ca. 1830 -- link -- The Death of Priam - Antonio Canova , 1810/1820 -- link -- The Baptism of Christ - Joachim Patinir , 1510/1520 -- link -- Mother's Darling - Guy PÄ�ne du Bois , 1913/1913 -- link -- Perseus Freeing Andromeda - Peter Paul Rubens , 1638 -- link -- Henry Cabot Lodge - John Singer Sargent , 1890 -- link -- The Rue

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The Sheepshearer (after Millet) - Vincent van Gogh , September 1889 - 1889 Today's Artwork: Island - Sidney Nolan , (1947) -- link -- Attention, Company! - William Michael Harnett , 1878 -- link -- Angel - Anita Malfatti , déc. 1920 -- link -- A View from Dosseringen near the Sortedam Lake Looking towards the Suburb Nørrebro outside Copenhagen - Christen Købke , 1838 -- link -- The Sheepshearer (after Millet) - Vincent van Gogh , September 1889 - 1889 -- link -- Haymaking - Leon-Augustin Lhermitte , 1844/1925 -- link -- Solitary Tree - Caspar David Friedrich , 1822 -- link -- Napoleon on the field of Wagram - Joseph Chabord  , 1810 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Carel Fabritius , circa 1645 -- link -- Portrait of Joseph Roulin - Vincent van Gogh , 1889 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: My crown and sceptre - Thomas Cooper Gotch , 1891 Today's Artwork: Fishermen on Skagen Nordstrand. Summer evening - P.S. Krøyer , 1891 -- link -- Princess Mary, Daughter of Charles I - Anthony van Dyck , about 1637 -- link -- Afterglow (Summer evening) - Frederick McCUBBIN , 1912 -- link -- On stage: the miser - Assteas , -350 -- link -- The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne - Alfred Sisley , 1872 -- link -- Patterdale landscape with cattle - John GLOVER , c.1833 -- link -- The Man With the Flower in His Mouth - An Act of Love and Life - Iberê Camargo , 1993 -- link -- Late Afternoon, New York, Winter - Frederick Childe Hassam , 1900 -- link -- Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page - Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) , probably January–February 1533 -- link -- Wooded hillside with a view of Bentheim Castle - Jacob van Ruisdael , 1655-1660 -- link -- We Have Crossed the Lake - Ian Woo , 2009 -- link -- Pontiac Cl